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Chief Strategy Officer at Infinite Retina. https://infiniteretina.com
The Spatial Computing (AR/VR/AI) Agency that helps entrepreneurs with their AR/VR projects and companies.
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4 thoughts on “HP fires Microsoft?”

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this is the first REAL competitor of the iPad but ONLY if the price will be VERY competitive but HP doesn’t own the domain name TouchPad.com that has been registered in May 17, 1998 by another (and clearly VERY lucky) guy!

Yep, easily missed bombshell at the very end… things were slowing down from what I could hear on the liveblogs, the preso was getting a bit long. And then this!

Sounds like HP just threw down the gauntlet in every possible way: 1) If this doesn’t get developer interest now (with millions of PCs/Laptops as potential new targets beyond any success/failure of the TouchPad itself), then nothing will. 2) Microsoft is on notice. Will they try to retaliate for this “insubordination”…

I think this is so bold yet also so risky a bet, that HP may have no choice but to price the TouchPad so competitively to the iPad that they may have to run it as a loss-leader initially, until their mfct. cost can be brought down with scale. I’d say anything over $399 (for the Wifi only) is a non-starter, and cheaper would be better. $349. Even $299.

I’d say at $299 HP would have a real foot in the door, but can they afford to do it?!

It must be refreshing for HP to not feel like a sidekick to MS, but developers are already complaining about building for iPhone and the many versions of Android. It will be interesting to see if HP can develop both consumer and developer interest with their devices.

Sorry, that’s not what they are planning on doing. They are going to build something akin to the Chrome OS so that they can sell laptops without ANY Windows running, which will save them something like $50 per machine, which turns into more than $100 at retail. That’s now significant.